Contrary to claims by the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, led by Musiliu Akinsanya, MC Oluomo, distancing itself from the fracas in Idumota area of Lagos and its environs which led to the death of four people with several injured, it has been alleged that the NURTW boss is the mastermind of the mayhem.
Adekunle Lawan, popularly known as Kunle Poly, one of the top officials in the Lagos NURTW, alleged that MC Oluomo had instigated two factional hoodlums in the NURTW to fight each other in a bid to achieve his selfish interest by taking over the parks and putting his allies in the position.
Two factional groups of hoodlums, popularly known as area boys, clashed in the area between 12 pm on Thursday and Friday, forcing several traders at the bustling commercial centre to abruptly shut their shops.
Videos of the clash went viral on Friday, with one of the clips showing a bloodied youth being carried away in a wheelbarrow and bodies of some lying lifeless on the ground.
The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said that normalcy had returned to the community with a combined team of police and other security agents deployed to Idumota and its environs to quell the gang fight that erupted in the neighborhood on Thursday, and lasted till Friday.
Ajisebutu said: “The police have quelled the crisis. Sufficient facilities were deployed in the area immediately we received a distress call and normalcy was restored. As we speak, the place is calm. I can’t confirm if any arrest was made for now or the cause of the fight. Investigation is ongoing.”
Kunle Poly categorically alleged that MC Oluomo is behind the crisis on the Island.
He said he was out of Lagos when the crisis started, but immediately the information about the clash got to him, he had to make a detour back to Lagos.
“A lot of my boys have been killed for refusing to be part of them, today made it four years hired assassins were sent to kill me, unfortunately, my personal assistant was killed in the process. I have also done everything humanly possible to make peace with the State Chairman, I have also begged him in the presence of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Hakeem Odumosu before his retirement.
“I don’t have a problem with anyone at my park. On December 8, 2021 we were with the Governor. I have 19 units out of it, the State Chairman collected 12 units leaving seven units for me. Simply because I didn’t support him for his Chairmanship ambition then, that I am loyal to former Chairman Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede.”
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